“We’re exhausted by the right-wing echo chamber that has been perpetuating misinformation around the vaccine and its efficacy and safety,” Newsom said Monday. The governor is attempting to encourage more workers to get vaccinated as the rise of the Delta variant in California places Newsom in an uncomfortable political position. With the election less than two months away, ordering new mandates could risk frustrating some California voters all over again. The governor’s Monday announcement stopped short of requiring state employees and healthcare workers to get vaccinated and instead calls for weekly testing of the unvaccinated. “Your choice not to get vaccinated and to listen to these pundits that are profiteering off misinformation, intentionally misinforming, comes at a real societal cost,” Newsom said.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 26, 2021 22:41 UTC